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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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Abundance Joy Life Moderation Taste
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
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Absence Happiness Posses Present Pursue
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
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Friendship Happiness Important Life
Don’t fear the gods, Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
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Death Easy Endurance Fear God Terrible Worry
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
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Difficult Glory Hard Time Overcome Struggle
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Death Life Philosophy
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
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Beginning Ending Happiness Live Pleasure
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Crowd Force Time Withdraw Yourself
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
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Abstract Compact Justice Men
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.
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Constant Evil God Human Listen Men Perish Prayer
Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
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Healing Man Philosophy Suffering Vain Word
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
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Easy Extend Ideal Infinite Limitation Nature Philosophy Requirement Wealth
The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.
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Consequence Freedom Sufficient
When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.
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Body Death Die Mind
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not.
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Care Death Existence One Liner
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
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Couch Fear Freedom Gold Inspirational Rich Table Trouble

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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